Evolving Nature of the English Language
Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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Edited By Robert Kiełtyka and Agnieszka Uberman
This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary papers pertaining to the most thought-provoking problems in the areas of both theoretical and applied linguistics. The contributors focus on contemporary developments in morphological, semantic and pragmatic theorizing. The contributions are also devoted to various aspects of the methodology of teaching English as well as some intricacies of translation.
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- Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2017. 274 pp., 16 fig., 4 tables
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- Part I: Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
- Latinisms in Substandard Language (Ada Böhmerová)
- From Man to Machine: In Search of Regularity in Semasiological Development of Professional/Occupational Names (Piotr Cymbalista)
- Conceptual Blending in Virginia Woolf’s “Lappin and Lapinova”: Identity, Integration, Imagination (Yuliya Davydyuk)
- London’s Linguistic Capital in Urban Visual Signs (Guntars Dreijers)
- Verbal Zoosemy Revisited (Robert Kiełtyka)
- The Semantics of Dog Revisited: In Search of Phraseologically Embedded Spectral Zoometaphors (Grzegorz A. Kleparski)
- On Dagos, Limeys and Yankees: Semantic Evolution of Attributive Ethnonyms (Marcin Kudła)
- Tracing Common-Denominator Semantics: In-Between Substantiated and Spectral Senses (Przemysław Łozowski)
- The Analysis of Selected Swearwords: Their Meaning, Use and Functions in Various Contexts (Adam Pluszczyk / Artur Świątek)
- The Colour of Endurance: Figurative Semantics of Green (Agnieszka Uberman)
- Quantification and Traceability of Prepositional Meanings in English Legal Texts (Edyta Więcławska)
- Abstract Nouns with Evaluative Meaning: Semantics and Structure (Anastasiia Yeromina)
- Part II: Studies in Applied Linguistics
- Translation Quality Assessment: Cultural and Linguistic Background (Vita Balama)
- Plaisir-asation in the Polish Translation of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Łukasz Barciński)
- What is Behind the Compiling of a Dictionary for a Bilingual User? (Magdaléna Bilá / Alena Kačmárová / Ingrida Vaňková)
- Students’ Self-Generated Questions in Reciprocal Reading Tasks in L1/L2 Settings (Anna Kiszczak)
- Instructional Designing and Modelling in Virtual Foreign Language Learning (Robert Oliwa)
- The Marginalisation of Vulgar Language in Audio-Visual Translation (Michał Organ)
- When Languages Interfere Too Much: On Interference and Negative Transfer in Translation (Karolina Puchała-Ladzińska)
- Development of Early Literacy Skills in EFL: Problems and Solutions (Barbara Struk / Halina Chodkiewicz)
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- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
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- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Contributors
- Part I: Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
- Latinisms in Substandard Language (Ada Böhmerová)
- From Man to Machine: In Search of Regularity in Semasiological Development of Professional/Occupational Names (Piotr Cymbalista)
- Conceptual Blending in Virginia Woolf’s “Lappin and Lapinova”: Identity, Integration, Imagination (Yuliya Davydyuk)
- London’s Linguistic Capital in Urban Visual Signs (Guntars Dreijers)
- Verbal Zoosemy Revisited (Robert Kiełtyka)
- The Semantics of Dog Revisited: In Search of Phraseologically Embedded Spectral Zoometaphors (Grzegorz A. Kleparski)
- On Dagos, Limeys and Yankees: Semantic Evolution of Attributive Ethnonyms (Marcin Kudła)
- Tracing Common-Denominator Semantics: In-Between Substantiated and Spectral Senses (Przemysław Łozowski)
- The Analysis of Selected Swearwords: Their Meaning, Use and Functions in Various Contexts (Adam Pluszczyk / Artur Świątek)
- The Colour of Endurance: Figurative Semantics of Green (Agnieszka Uberman)
- Quantification and Traceability of Prepositional Meanings in English Legal Texts (Edyta Więcławska)
- Abstract Nouns with Evaluative Meaning: Semantics and Structure (Anastasiia Yeromina)
- Part II: Studies in Applied Linguistics
- Translation Quality Assessment: Cultural and Linguistic Background (Vita Balama)
- Plaisir-asation in the Polish Translation of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Łukasz Barciński)
- What is Behind the Compiling of a Dictionary for a Bilingual User? (Magdaléna Bilá / Alena Kačmárová / Ingrida Vaňková)
- Students’ Self-Generated Questions in Reciprocal Reading Tasks in L1/L2 Settings (Anna Kiszczak)
- Instructional Designing and Modelling in Virtual Foreign Language Learning (Robert Oliwa)
- The Marginalisation of Vulgar Language in Audio-Visual Translation (Michał Organ)
- When Languages Interfere Too Much: On Interference and Negative Transfer in Translation (Karolina Puchała-Ladzińska)
- Development of Early Literacy Skills in EFL: Problems and Solutions (Barbara Struk / Halina Chodkiewicz)
The Colour of Endurance: Figurative Semantics of Green (Agnieszka Uberman)
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Agnieszka Uberman
The Colour of Endurance: Figurative Semantics of Green
Abstract: The colour green is universally associated with hope and life. It is interesting to verify whether the presence of the colour term in diverse linguistic expressions confirms such a common belief. The present discussion intends to analyse the semantics of the lexicon containing the colour term in question. It focuses on English phrases and expressions and aims to compare them with existing Polish equivalents in search of shared underlying concepts. The possible areas of diverse metaphorisation shall also be highlighted.
Keywords: colour terms, green, metaphorical meaning, endurance, life
Colour in language
Colour is the phenomenon so naturally present in human life that it seems unnecessary to ponder. Undoubtedly, it is a daunting task to delimit the various shades of any given colour, as “the borderline between different colours is fuzzy (there is no single line in the spectrum where red stops and orange begins)” (Heider 1972 quoted in Wyler 2006, 95). Webster and Kay (2012, 375) stress the fact that colours are categorised with the application of “a small set of discrete verbal labels”. They also add that strong resemblances have been observed cross-culturally for naming colours by different language communities, yet, at the same time, the demarcation lines between diverse colours in the spectrum are placed differently.
Wierzbicka1 (1990, 99) notes that “the hardest things to observe are those which one sees everyday...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Contributors
- Part I: Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
- Latinisms in Substandard Language (Ada Böhmerová)
- From Man to Machine: In Search of Regularity in Semasiological Development of Professional/Occupational Names (Piotr Cymbalista)
- Conceptual Blending in Virginia Woolf’s “Lappin and Lapinova”: Identity, Integration, Imagination (Yuliya Davydyuk)
- London’s Linguistic Capital in Urban Visual Signs (Guntars Dreijers)
- Verbal Zoosemy Revisited (Robert Kiełtyka)
- The Semantics of Dog Revisited: In Search of Phraseologically Embedded Spectral Zoometaphors (Grzegorz A. Kleparski)
- On Dagos, Limeys and Yankees: Semantic Evolution of Attributive Ethnonyms (Marcin Kudła)
- Tracing Common-Denominator Semantics: In-Between Substantiated and Spectral Senses (Przemysław Łozowski)
- The Analysis of Selected Swearwords: Their Meaning, Use and Functions in Various Contexts (Adam Pluszczyk / Artur Świątek)
- The Colour of Endurance: Figurative Semantics of Green (Agnieszka Uberman)
- Quantification and Traceability of Prepositional Meanings in English Legal Texts (Edyta Więcławska)
- Abstract Nouns with Evaluative Meaning: Semantics and Structure (Anastasiia Yeromina)
- Part II: Studies in Applied Linguistics
- Translation Quality Assessment: Cultural and Linguistic Background (Vita Balama)
- Plaisir-asation in the Polish Translation of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Łukasz Barciński)
- What is Behind the Compiling of a Dictionary for a Bilingual User? (Magdaléna Bilá / Alena Kačmárová / Ingrida Vaňková)
- Students’ Self-Generated Questions in Reciprocal Reading Tasks in L1/L2 Settings (Anna Kiszczak)
- Instructional Designing and Modelling in Virtual Foreign Language Learning (Robert Oliwa)
- The Marginalisation of Vulgar Language in Audio-Visual Translation (Michał Organ)
- When Languages Interfere Too Much: On Interference and Negative Transfer in Translation (Karolina Puchała-Ladzińska)
- Development of Early Literacy Skills in EFL: Problems and Solutions (Barbara Struk / Halina Chodkiewicz)
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Contributors
- Part I: Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
- Latinisms in Substandard Language (Ada Böhmerová)
- From Man to Machine: In Search of Regularity in Semasiological Development of Professional/Occupational Names (Piotr Cymbalista)
- Conceptual Blending in Virginia Woolf’s “Lappin and Lapinova”: Identity, Integration, Imagination (Yuliya Davydyuk)
- London’s Linguistic Capital in Urban Visual Signs (Guntars Dreijers)
- Verbal Zoosemy Revisited (Robert Kiełtyka)
- The Semantics of Dog Revisited: In Search of Phraseologically Embedded Spectral Zoometaphors (Grzegorz A. Kleparski)
- On Dagos, Limeys and Yankees: Semantic Evolution of Attributive Ethnonyms (Marcin Kudła)
- Tracing Common-Denominator Semantics: In-Between Substantiated and Spectral Senses (Przemysław Łozowski)
- The Analysis of Selected Swearwords: Their Meaning, Use and Functions in Various Contexts (Adam Pluszczyk / Artur Świątek)
- The Colour of Endurance: Figurative Semantics of Green (Agnieszka Uberman)
- Quantification and Traceability of Prepositional Meanings in English Legal Texts (Edyta Więcławska)
- Abstract Nouns with Evaluative Meaning: Semantics and Structure (Anastasiia Yeromina)
- Part II: Studies in Applied Linguistics
- Translation Quality Assessment: Cultural and Linguistic Background (Vita Balama)
- Plaisir-asation in the Polish Translation of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Łukasz Barciński)
- What is Behind the Compiling of a Dictionary for a Bilingual User? (Magdaléna Bilá / Alena Kačmárová / Ingrida Vaňková)
- Students’ Self-Generated Questions in Reciprocal Reading Tasks in L1/L2 Settings (Anna Kiszczak)
- Instructional Designing and Modelling in Virtual Foreign Language Learning (Robert Oliwa)
- The Marginalisation of Vulgar Language in Audio-Visual Translation (Michał Organ)
- When Languages Interfere Too Much: On Interference and Negative Transfer in Translation (Karolina Puchała-Ladzińska)
- Development of Early Literacy Skills in EFL: Problems and Solutions (Barbara Struk / Halina Chodkiewicz)